Chocolate-Covered Popcorn

Chocolate Popcorn Has A Sweet & Salty Crunch

CAPSULE REPORT: We tasted a lot of chocolate-covered popcorn and chose three brands that span the spectrum from “popcorn with a touch of chocolate” (Sensational Sweets) to “chocolate with a touch of popcorn” (Hampton Popcorn Company). Two of the companies make several different flavors of chocolate popcorn (Dale & Thomas and Hampton Popcorn Company), and all three are kosher-certified. More than delicious snacking, these popcorns are delightful gifts, party favors and a lot of fun for connoisseurs of fine food. The key here is quality: the chocolate makes all the difference and with our recommended popcorns, it’s as good as you’d expect in a top specialty food product. This is Page 1 of a four-page article. Click on the black links below to visit other pages.

Overview

If you like popcorn and you like chocolate, combine the two, common wisdom would argue, and you’ve got something really special. We put the theory to the test and spent months tasting chocolate-covered popcorns. The ones we recommend here are really special, and the’re far from kid stuff. They could take their place with an espresso at the end of a fine dinner. Or they could come to picnics, parties, movies, the zoo... anywhere anyone wants a delicious, sweet snack. We’ll emphasize the word delicious, because the first thing most people say after their first mouthful is: This is really delicious!

Dale & Thomas Popcorn

Medium-Coating • Sweet • Kosher

Dale & Thomas Popcorn is named for its owner, popcorn-lover and former Detroit Pistons point guard and Hall-of-Famer Isiah Thomas, and for the mayor of the Indiana town Popcorn River, Dale Humphrey (who has no financial ties with the popcorn company, although his state, Indiana, is the country’s largest producer of popcorn, and his town is in the heart of the industry). The company serves a variety of flavors of popcorn including seven delicious varieties coated in chocolate:

The chocolate and peanut butter-chocolate coatings are sweeter than the other two manufacturers, and sure to please the sweet-toothed. The chocolate coating is in the mid-range—not as heavy as Hampton Popcorn (see next section), but very satisfying.